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Feature Enhancement Using Multi-Baseline SAR Interferometry-Correlated Synthesis Images for Power Transmission Tower Detection in Mountain Layover Area

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REMOTE SENSING
Volume 15, Issue 15, Pages -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs15153823

Keywords

synthetic aperture radar (SAR); InSAR; power transmission tower; object detection

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This paper presents a method for power transmission tower detection in mountainous areas using single-baseline and multi-baseline SAR interferometry coherence images, which show better feature enhancement effectiveness compared to SAR amplitude images. It also proposes a novel feature enhancement method using multi-baseline SAR interferometry-correlated synthesis images. Experimental results demonstrate that the detection performance using multi-baseline SAR interferometry-correlated synthesis images improves by more than 43.6% compared to using SAR amplitude images when benchmark deep learning-based detectors are used.
The detection performance of power transmission towers in mountainous areas using SAR amplitude images is obviously influenced by the strong layover background (mainly including vegetation and soil) clutter interference around the towers. In this paper, power transmission tower detection in a mountainous layover area, using single-baseline SAR interferometry coherence images, which show better feature enhancement effectiveness compared to SAR amplitude images, is presented. Moreover, a novel feature enhancement method, that of generating multi-baseline SAR interferometry-correlated synthesis images for power transmission tower detection in a mountain layover area, is proposed. It demonstrates better feature enhancement (layover background cluster suppression) than that using single-baseline SAR interferometry coherence images. Theoretical analysis illustrates that the mountainous layover background clutter interference can be suppressed in the proposed single-baseline/multi-baseline SAR interferometry-correlated synthesis image. Experiments including over 12 repeat-pass TerraSAR-X staring spotlight mode acquisitions were conducted, and the results demonstrate that the detection performance with the use of multi-baseline SAR interferometry-correlated synthesis images showed an improvement of more than 43.6%, compared with the traditional method of using SAR amplitude images when benchmark deep learning-based detectors are used, i.e., Faster RCNN and YOLOv7.

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